Cyrus Langhorne
Grammy-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco has responded to a recent jab fired at him from hip-hop artist Game over being considered weird.
Fiasco took to his Twitter page to defend not falling into stereotypes.
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In a recent interview, Game explained labeling Lupe “weird.”
“He is f*cking weird. … Personally, on the Lupe front, maybe I might be lost now or maybe Lupe is just evolving and Game can’t see it. I miss the old Lupe records when it was about Chi-Town and it was hood and maybe I’m being what I’m telling other people not to be. But that’s just being a fan of music. Some people evolve and you are able to embrace it. Then other people evolve and you get mad. That’s why when some people might be like, ‘Game, you changed’ or ‘I like the Old Game,’ you might be what I’m being when I say I like the old Lupe.” (Letty Set Go)
Game fired off his “weird” diss at Lupe on his new “Dollar & A Dream” song.
Like all past albums from the rapper, this one has plenty of name drops as well. On the Ab-Soul featured ‘Dollar & A Dream’, Jayceon spits the following bar at the 1 minute mark: “I put it on a head I ain’t talkin no toupee. I stayed the same ain’t go weird like Lupe” (Hip Hop N More)
Instead of staying mum on the shot, Lupe responded via Twitter.
Dear @thegame http://t.co/ydN3r7FQ7L
— HOUSE EP NOW PLAYING (@LupeFiasco) October 1, 2015
do your thing bruh ..the rap game and society in general is full of sheep following the pied pipers down the path to a mental slaughterhouse.
Lupe Fiasco is a fugazi false prophet that was financed into the rap game with money from a HEROIN dealer … he needs to GTFO with all that Neighborhood START Bullsh!t.. at least Game doesn’t exist because drug junkies died overdosing on H
Suspicious comment. This seems like a wild and desperate lie. Your comment does nothing more than make me you think you’re a gubmint troll and that Lupe is more of a thorn in the side of you people than I thought.
I haven’t forgotten what he pointed out about the thousands of children and women Obama has had killed by drone, and I guess the beast hasn’t either. Are your people are going to get him like they got Bill?
We used to have Public Enemy, Brand Nubian, Gang Starr, KRS, and more at one time. But I guess things are so bad now everything like that must be immediately attacked. The iron fist beneath that velvet glove is being revealed much more rapidly these days.
The beast doesn’t like positivity, strength and empowerment in the black community, is the only point you succeeded in getting across.
For being honest about the silliness of that hood shit? He was real and very honest.
Just when I think nothing matters and no one is heard, amazingly the .gov trolls will come out and attack someone or some issue that I swore couldn’t be more marginal or inconsequential to the beast.
Something awfully bad must be around the corner for them to suddenly have to focus on Lupe Fiasco and destroying Dr. Huxtable and the image of the Huxtables.
Notice how they are reshaping black entertainment so that it is nothing but 21st century mammy Oprah and homos Tyler Perry and Lee Daniels and a bunch of hyperghetto Mantans.
Why is that happening, and why is the intense, concerted effort to make that happen happening now? Why would Game take the time to jab at Lupe when so few rappers are saying anything positive? They don’t even have the same audience. Is Game getting points from somebody for going at Lupe?
It’s no secret that the the same people who helped Freeway Rick Ross flood the streets of LA with poison also helped Easy E and Suge Knight flood the airwaves with it. It is strange for Game to suddenly go after Lupe. I would guess he has tax problems or has been caught dealing drugs, or both.
It’s really sad though, Games talking about evolution. He has consistently rapped about the same stereotypical things and has the nerve to say he wants back the old Lupe. If anything, Lupe has transcended lyricism and is now a painted with words. The Game could never make tracks like “prisoner 1 & 2, or Haley Selassie (if you haven’t heard them, give them a listen).
He don’t wanna see Lupe with the pen tho. Game gets busy with the battle records, but Lupe is a whole nother lyrical beast. You see what Mos Def did.
Things that make You a Weirdo in Hip Hop 2015:
Being a good lyricist, Being a conscious Lyricist
Things that do not make you a Weirdo in Hip Hop 2015:
Being a Former Correctional Officer
Wifing Thots that have been passed around the industry more than the average rap demo
Having atleast 1/4 of your Album Ghoswritten while claiming you’re the King/Best
BEING A FORMER MALE STRIPPER
BEING A FORMER MALE STRIPPER WITH A BUTTERFLY TATTOO ON YOUR FACE
And all that bangin Game doin on 2.5 sounds so un-natural.